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#1 Hydrogen

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Posted 31 January 2013 - 09:00 PM

I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.

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#2 ink

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 02:10 PM

tar xzf filename or tar xjf filename are the ones I use most often :p



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Posted 22 February 2013 - 02:20 PM

If the prompt says no googling, then I assume it's sitting on a machine that is capable of doing some reasonable things. Ok, fine, you can't google. But no one ever said you couldn't look up the man page.

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 02:31 PM

If the prompt says no googling, then I assume it's sitting on a machine that is capable of doing some reasonable things. Ok, fine, you can't google. But no one ever said you couldn't look up the man page.

noobs.

Hahaha, man page. Virtual equivalent of man cave :D

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